Stratospheric bimodality: Can the equatorial QBO explain the regime behavior of the NH winter vortex?

Journal of Climate

Volumn 23, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 3953-3966

  Christiansen, Bo ^a  

^a DANISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL CYCLE; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; BIMODAL STRUCTURES; DATA SETS; EQUATORIAL WINDS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PHASE-LOCKING; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATIONS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRATOSPHERIC VORTEX; UNIMODALITY;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

SAMPLING;

DATA SET; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; QUASI-BIENNIAL OSCILLATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEMIANNUAL OSCILLATION; STRATOSPHERE; VORTEX FLOW; WIND FORCING;

EID: 77958105768     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JCLI3495.1     Document Type: Article

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